...money online using a service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, or “MTurk” as it’s colloquially known. MTurk was started in 2005 by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and director of Amazon Web...
...answer would probably depend on whether or not such reflexive activity is common among humans. Duplicitous or part-hidden subjects, such as spies or queers, have long had to know a...
...hominess? Because I was thinking of you, returning to Goshen for your writing conference this weekend, yesterday I read a couple essays published online by Rachel Yoder . She writes,...
...Google. Coursera, a for-profit online education startup, also needs translators’ labor, so it can sell its MOOCs (massive open online courses) in other languages. So in April 2014, it created...
...to be less harmful. In a similar vein, in 2015, an anonymous group of activists created an online guide called, “How to Have Sex in a Police State,” which analyzed...
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
...City Council meeting A plan for a safer Oakland: Critical Resistance Depression and Money, Some Real Talk 16-year-old Temitayo Fagbenle reports on sexual bullying online (audio) Facial weaponization: Fag Face...
...that drive online abuse and scapegoating are also what give users a feeling of community on social media, its operators will be hard-pressed to rein them in, even if they...
...civilized on the Internet is, however, an impossible request, because the Internet is exactly where the socialized etiquette of face-to-face interactions comes apart. Online, you can stare for a shamelessly...
...compete and be effective online, then it’s time to get out of the way for the people who can.” “The script… sees the bald Indian pacifist confronting the British Imperial...
...Jean-Michel Basquiat King Brand (1983) In an online milieu where everyone markets themselves, net artists have made selling out its own medium In the Atkins-diet-crazed early aughts, a...
...Litel — and I will be inspired to write a series of tweets about online circulation and its various measures displacing other forms of content with which to make up...
...the music being discussed had arrived in the public consciousness in the usual way, via record labels. Eventually, though, participants in online music culture started making our own things. Our...
...them posting images in hopes of going viral. The more this volume of online images increases, the more they must compete against one another for attention. To stand out among...